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REMINDER: Always double check

by Kevin Riley
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The following tale of perplexity involves $7 Secrets, but in no way is it the fault of the script. This is squarely on my shoulders.

A few days ago, I had checked and double checked the $7 Secrets-based version of my sales letter for Rocket Christmas Cash. All worked perfectly. Then, yesterday, the troubles began. Suddenly, not one but a number of download failures occurred. The occasional is to be expected, but a number one after the other is a warning flag.

Now, this happened once before, when PayPal was making changes to their interface and IPN was being delivered back to script too slowly. I spent a few hours chained to the computer and manually sending out close to 100 downloads (the fun wears off after the first 10).

But this time, it was something different. When you edit the download.html page of $7 Secrets, many editors will scramble the code snippet. For this reason, I always include a fix with $7 Secrets in any of my products that use it. Looks like this:

<a href="<?= sys_download_url(0) ?>">

This again turned out to be the culprit. Just before the failures started, I'd done a quick edit on that page and re-uploaded it to my server. Since all had worked fine, and it was only a minor edit, I never tested it. Ooopsd. Forgot about that garbled snippet.

So ... a reminder to be careful out there.
#check #double #reminder
  • Profile picture of the author Jag82
    Originally Posted by Kevin Riley View Post

    But this time, it was something different. When you edit the download.html page of $7 Secrets, many editors will scramble the code snippet. For this reason, I always include a fix with $7 Secrets in any of my products that use it. Looks like this:

    <a href="<?= sys_download_url(0) ?>">

    This again turned out to be the culprit. Just before the failures started, I'd done a quick edit on that page and re-uploaded it to my server. Since all had worked fine, and it was only a minor edit, I never tested it. Ooopsd. Forgot about that garbled snippet.

    So ... a reminder to be careful out there.

    Ahhh...Kelvin...

    Time to switch to RAP?

    IN RAP, you get to test out your sales pages, OTO, download pages or whatever using the template viewer.

    I always use it to test of all the links are working normally like they should be.

    Jag
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  • Profile picture of the author Elmer Hurlstone
    Kevin,

    Why didn't you remind me of this a few days ago?

    No, my "failure to check" was not on a $7 Secrets script; it was something much, much, more fundamental. The privacy settings on a WP blog.

    I recently installed some Christmas affiliate product blogs. Everything went fine--I thought. They looked OK. All the links worked. The content was appropriate. So, where are my clicks? Where is my adsense block--there's a space for it.

    Did some checking. No adsense because the bot was blocked. OK, fix the "robots.txt" file. Done.

    Still no clicks; scratch head, pace, ponder, fuss, fume... you get the idea.

    Check the "Privacy" section on the WP Dashboard.

    You know the little line that says, right behind the election box, something to the effect of "Let the whole wide world see this blog."?

    Guess who neglected to de-privatize some blogs?

    So, Kevin, you won't mind if I repeat your post title, will you? In bold, larger, red?

    REMINDER: Always double check!

    Didn't think you would...

    Elmer
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